How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A thorough absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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