How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 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 growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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