How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web space hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, 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 hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 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 growing confused? We surely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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