How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 perplexed? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting firms:

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