How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain folder system

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

Are you becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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