How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web site hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:

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