How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

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

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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