How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase 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 simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 getting baffled? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point No.3: A total shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

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

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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