How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web space hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 perplexed? We surely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting vendors:

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