How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Predicament No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ CP sections to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting service providers:

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