How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all web space hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness No.3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 CP areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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