How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 baffled? We categorically are!

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

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Predicament Number Three: A total lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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