How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We positively are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting distributors:

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