How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole site hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 confused? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:

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