How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully 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 quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing 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 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 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 becoming confused? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Problem Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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