How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web space hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete 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 quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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