How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. 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 literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most webspace hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing 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 name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Drawback No.3: An utter absence of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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