How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most webspace hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 becoming baffled? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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