How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most web site hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Drawback No.3: A thorough absence of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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