How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Drawback No.3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the total shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting CP sections to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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