How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web page hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 puzzled? We surely are!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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