How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Weak Point No.3: A sheer absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel sections to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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