How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all site hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 puzzled? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Disadvantage No.3: An utter absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to mention the total absence of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...