How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete absence of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very 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 are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...