How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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 disorientated? We definitely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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