How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web space hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific 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)
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)

Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:

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