How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)

Are you getting perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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