How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web space hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Weak Side Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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