How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you growing nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to cite the complete absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web site hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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