How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web page hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Problem Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number 3: A total lack of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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