How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all webspace hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)
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 absolutely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting firms:

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