How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web space hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)

Are you getting bewildered? We definitely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting firms:

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