How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 getting disorientated? We certainly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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