How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 categorically are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Drawback No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

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