How Does cPanel Site Hosting Work?

cPanel-based web hosting or... cPanel site hosting?!?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all web page hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous 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)
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)
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 certainly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management menus

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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