How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)

Are you growing perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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