How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same thing: 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 offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). 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, which is the quite 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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)

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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