How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one 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%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense 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 web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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 getting baffled? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Predicament No.3: An absolute lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ CP areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:

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