How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ hosting CP departments to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:

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