How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all webspace hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good 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)
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 surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting company. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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