How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming baffled? We surely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Drawback Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the total lack of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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