How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most site hosting business demands. 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...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 getting confused? We positively are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

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

Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:

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