How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web space hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We surely are!

Weakness Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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