How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Problem No.3: An utter lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the utter lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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