How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web space hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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