How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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