How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 positively are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to point out the entire lack of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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