How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A total absence of domain management interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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