How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 getting perplexed? We positively are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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