How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web space hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)

Are you growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Shortcoming No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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