How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web space hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove fully 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 very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Side No.3: An utter absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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