How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly 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 offers on the whole web site hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase 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 easy to delete on the web server, because 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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 disorientated? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An utter absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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