How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific 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)
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 growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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