How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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)
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 nonplussed? We absolutely are!

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

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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