How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most site hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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)
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 confused? We definitely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ CP sections to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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