How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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