How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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 doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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