How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove entirely 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 simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Weakness Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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