How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web space 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 domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous 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)
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)

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Downside No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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