How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We certainly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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