How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most webspace hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Predicament Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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