How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 getting baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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