How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all site hosting market prerequisites. 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...

Downside No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 growing confused? We definitely are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number Three: An entire lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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