How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
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 puzzled? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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