How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 becoming confused? We certainly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting provider. At times, based on the billing tool (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP areas to grasp... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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