How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most web page hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 baffled? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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