How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all site hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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 server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 growing confused? We surely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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