How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 getting disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: An absolute lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ hosting CP sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...