How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the current web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all webspace hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Disadvantage No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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