How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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)
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 getting perplexed? We definitely are!

Problem No.2: The same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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