How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

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

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: An entire lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 site hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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