How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most webspace hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire absence of domain name management menus

Do we have to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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