How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event 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 severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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