How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all webspace hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 becoming disorientated? We definitely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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