How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, 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 differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management tools

Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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