How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We surely are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A total deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:

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