How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 becoming baffled? We certainly are!

Weak Side No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Weakness No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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