How does cpanel hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 confused? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: A total lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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