How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and 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 webspace hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense 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 strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web space hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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 becoming baffled? We positively are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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