How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete 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 easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 growing bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total absence of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a big predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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