How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check 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 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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:

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