How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 getting disorientated? We certainly are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Problem Number Three: A thorough lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ Control Panel areas to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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