How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most site hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

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

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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