How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Problem No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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