How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web page hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 perplexed? We positively are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the eager users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:

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