How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Weakness No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting companies:

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