How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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