How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web page hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 confused? We undeniably are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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