How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all web page hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...