How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web site hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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