How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 growing nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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