How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web site hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain management sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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