How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting firms:

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