How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most webspace hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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 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 perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

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