How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 disorientated? We surely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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