How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all webspace hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the total lack of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:

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