How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful 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 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 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 confused? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer lack of domain management menus

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ hosting CP sections to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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