How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web site hosting business prerequisites. 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...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 getting baffled? We certainly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ CP areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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