How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all web page hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Problem Number 3: A total absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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