How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all webspace hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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 amazing 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 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)
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!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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