How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 becoming confused? We positively are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Drawback Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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