How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current 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 distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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 great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Problem No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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