How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon 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 pros and cons of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all site hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, 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, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing 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)
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 growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...