How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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