How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, 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, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 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!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Drawback No.3: A sheer shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:

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