How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete 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 quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 getting baffled? We categorically are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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