How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web page hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web site hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 getting disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP areas to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:

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