How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most webspace hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting service providers:

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