How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web page hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

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

Are you becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: A total shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:

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