How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Point No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete absence of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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