How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete lack of domain management tools

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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