How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web site hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. At times, based on the billing platform (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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