How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most web site hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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 becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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