How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web page hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)

Are you growing bewildered? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Predicament Number Three: A sheer absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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