How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web space hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 becoming baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: An utter lack of domain management sections

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...