How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting providers:

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