How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all hosting business demands. 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 Point No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the eager users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each and every one 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 web hosting distributors:

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