How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 getting puzzled? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Predicament No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain management sections

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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