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 the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most webspace hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good 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)
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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the total lack of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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