How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all site hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name administration options

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the keen users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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