How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web site hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

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

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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