How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 getting baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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