How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 becoming perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer lack of domain administration menus

Do we need to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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