How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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)

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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