How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 disorientated? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Point No.3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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