How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very 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 web space hosting offers on the entire site hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most site hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 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 becoming disorientated? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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