How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 baffled? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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