How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web page hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most site hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 growing baffled? We categorically are!

Downside Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name administration tools

Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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