How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently 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 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 getting confused? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Inconvenience No.3: A total lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is using, the earnest clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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