How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all webspace hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 becoming confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A thorough absence of domain management sections

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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