How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web space hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 perplexed? We absolutely are!

Problem Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: An entire absence of domain administration menus

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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