How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete absence of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...