How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely 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 very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 disorientated? We clearly are!

Downside Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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