How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely 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 domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 CP areas to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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