How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 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 puzzled? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:

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