How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)

Are you getting disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Problem No.3: An utter lack of domain name management tools

Do we have to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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