How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present web page hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 name)
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 growing puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Downside Number 3: A total shortage of domain management options

Do we have to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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