How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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 name)
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)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Predicament Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: An utter lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weakness No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting firm is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...