How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Problem No.3: A complete absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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