How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web page hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide 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 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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Predicament Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:

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