How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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