How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side No.3: A sheer shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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