How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous 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 name)
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)

Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A complete deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...