How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great 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 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 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 confused? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Weakness Number Three: A total deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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