How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all webspace hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management options

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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