How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web page hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...