How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all site hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We clearly are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to mention the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP areas to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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