How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...