How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all site hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

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

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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