How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 positively are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

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