How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove 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 remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 clearly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, based on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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