How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on today's web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most site hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 definitely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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