How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 becoming baffled? We absolutely are!

Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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