How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most webspace hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 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 getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weakness Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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