How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting 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 positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 growing puzzled? We certainly are!

Downside No.2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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