How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly 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 whole hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge 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 strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:

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