How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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)
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 getting puzzled? We definitely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Point No.3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:

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