How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web space hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 perplexed? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management sections

Do we have to cite the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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