How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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)

Are you getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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