How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A total deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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