How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web page hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove 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 domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing tool (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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