How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic 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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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