How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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