How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting disorientated? We positively are!

Problem Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete absence of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting firms:

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