How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are created 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)
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 growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Problem No.3: A complete shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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