How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific 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 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 becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration options

Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:

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