How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully 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 very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)

Are you getting puzzled? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: A complete absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ Control Panel departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting companies:

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