How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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