How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web site hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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