How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all webspace hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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. Verify for yourself how great 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 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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: An utter lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:

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