How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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 name)
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 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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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