How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 getting bewildered? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weak Side No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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