How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 becoming bewildered? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side No.3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 CP menus to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...