How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 getting nonplussed? We positively are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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