How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A foolish domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is using, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...