How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just 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, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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 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)

Are you getting disorientated? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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