How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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