How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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