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 present webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, 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 created 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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