How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 baffled? We clearly are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: A total lack of domain name administration sections

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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