How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting vendors:

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