How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web space hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely 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 domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 getting nonplussed? We categorically are!

Downside Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Predicament Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:

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