How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web page hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 bewildered? We certainly are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ web space hosting CP areas to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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