How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all web site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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