How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web page hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Drawback Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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