How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

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

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all webspace hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully 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 domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number Three: A total lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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