How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase 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 domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you growing puzzled? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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