How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)

Are you becoming baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: An utter absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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