How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully 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 erase on the server, because they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Weakness Number Three: An entire shortage of domain management tools

Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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