How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web page hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent 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 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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Weak Point No.3: A total absence of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting company. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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