How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects 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 probably answered all web site hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely 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 simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...