How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most webspace hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 puzzled? We surely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name management options

Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting corporations:

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