How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic 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 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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Problem Number Three: An entire absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...