How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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