How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good 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 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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weak Point No.3: A sheer lack of domain name management options

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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