How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web page hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely 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 very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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