How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine 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)
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 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 getting disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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