How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most web page hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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)
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 growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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