How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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 certainly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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