How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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)
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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: A total absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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