How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all webspace hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 CP areas to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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