How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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)
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 disorientated? We surely are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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