How cPanel Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 nonplussed? We categorically are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...