How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because 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 name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 getting baffled? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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