How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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