How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Discover for yourself how good 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)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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