How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Weakness Number Three: An entire absence of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. At times, based on the billing tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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