How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web page hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to learn... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...