How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since 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. Verify for yourself how fantastic 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 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)
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 growing perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP areas to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting companies:

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