How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple 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 famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number 3: A total absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting firms:

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