How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present site hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web site hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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 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)

Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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