How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web site hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A complete lack of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than 120 hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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