How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most hosting market prerequisites. 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 domain names...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific 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 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)
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 categorically are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain administration options

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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