How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely 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 very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify 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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Problem Number 3: A complete lack of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting service providers:

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