How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. 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 sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

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

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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