How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web page hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Downside No.2: The very same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting suppliers:

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