How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most web space hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 nonplussed? We certainly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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