How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all web site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 growing bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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