How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider 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 fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete fully 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 easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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 getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, 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? Mark that one as well...