How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Side Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

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

How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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