How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web site hosting market demands. 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 domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase 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 domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you becoming baffled? We positively are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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