How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current site hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 getting disorientated? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to mention the utter lack of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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