How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all web page hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 getting confused? We certainly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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