How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web page hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An entire absence of domain name management options

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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