How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all webspace hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

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

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:

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