How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely 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 site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:

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