How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover 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 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 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 bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Drawback No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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