How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web page hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 puzzled? We undeniably are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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