How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 confused? We definitely are!

Drawback No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A complete lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:

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