How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Drawback Number Three: A complete lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting providers:

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