How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Weakness Number Three: An utter shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting vendors:

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