How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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)
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 nonplussed? We clearly are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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