How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 confused? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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