How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Drawback Number Three: An utter shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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