How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across 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 happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all site hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)

Are you getting perplexed? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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