How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the current web page hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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