How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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