How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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