How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most web site hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to delete completely 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 domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 baffled? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder system

The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number 3: An utter lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting firms:

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