How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 becoming baffled? We positively are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...