How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most web site hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total absence of domain management options

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ Control Panel sections to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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