How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

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

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all site hosting business 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...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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 baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: An entire deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:

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