How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web space hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter lack of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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