How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most webspace hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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