How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors 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 offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number Three: A thorough lack of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the complete absence of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Drawback No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... 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...