How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer lack of domain name administration options

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the keen users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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