How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great 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 name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 disorientated? We surely are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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