How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most webspace hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Predicament Number Three: An entire lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty CP areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...