How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous 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 aspects of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing 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 name)
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)
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 becoming confused? We certainly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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