How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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