How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 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 getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Weak Side No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name management sections

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

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