How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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