How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to bring up the total absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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