How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 confused? We surely are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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