How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting market 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 domains...

Drawback Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 CP areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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