How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a major problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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