How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web page hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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 becoming bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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