How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current web page hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all webspace hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 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 becoming disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number Three: A sheer absence of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to get familiar with... promptly

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

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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