How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web space hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP departments to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:

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