How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully 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 very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 growing disorientated? We clearly are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Predicament Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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