How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting providers", 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 and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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 growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the avid clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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