How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most webspace hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase fully 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 domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Weakness No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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