How cPanel Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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 great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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)

Are you getting puzzled? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the complete lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...