How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully 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 simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 growing puzzled? We surely are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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