How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web site hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Problem Number 3: A thorough lack of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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