How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web page hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent 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 name)
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)
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 growing bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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