How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 growing perplexed? We positively are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Shortcoming No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ hosting CP sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting corporations:

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