How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 clearly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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