How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web page hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 baffled? We definitely are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer lack of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting providers:

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