How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 marvelous cPanel's domain 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)
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 becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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