How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number 3: A complete absence of domain name management menus

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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