How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all site hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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