How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 growing puzzled? We surely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Problem No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration sections

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ CP menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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