How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic 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 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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We categorically are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign No.3: A complete deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the total absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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