How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 getting puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An utter lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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