How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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 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)
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!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: An absolute absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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