How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!

Problem Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number 4: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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