How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to point out the entire deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting firm. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting service providers:

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