How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely 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 web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all webspace hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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)
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 growing perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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