How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

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 hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 disorientated? We positively are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively insolent 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...