How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Side No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the thorough deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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