How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: An utter absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

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