How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting companies:

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