How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Drawback Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain management options

Do we have to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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