How cPanel Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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 fashionable and probably answered all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 marvelous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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