How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web page hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 nonplussed? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Drawback Number Three: An entire absence of domain management interfaces

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:

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