How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 name, 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: An utter lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the avid users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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