How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove completely 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 remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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