How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Downside No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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