How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Point Number Three: A total lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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