How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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