How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, 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 hosting server, because they all are set up 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic 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)
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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Problem Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

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

What about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing system (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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