How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all webspace hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how terrific 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 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 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 becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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