How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web space hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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)
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 growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming No.3: A total shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting service providers:

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