How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 becoming disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to get to know... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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