How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 growing bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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