How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? 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 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We surely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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