How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 nonplussed? We certainly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting corporation is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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