How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web page hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)
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 becoming perplexed? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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