How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since 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 name 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 domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 baffled? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Predicament Number Three: An utter lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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