How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web site hosting business demands. 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...

Negative Sign No.1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:

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