How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web page hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic 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)
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 growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the keen users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ Control Panel menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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