How cPanel Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weak Point No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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