How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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