How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most webspace hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Drawback Number 3: A thorough absence of domain management menus

Do we have to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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