How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most site hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing 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)
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 growing confused? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP sections to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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