How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most site hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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)
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 categorically are!

Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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