How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. At times, depending on the billing system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:

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