How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An utter lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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