How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all web site hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely 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 quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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 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)
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 certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Predicament Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty CP areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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