How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor 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 strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 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 getting baffled? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting companies:

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