How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the 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 located 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. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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