How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Drawback Number Three: A total lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 CP areas to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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