How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web page hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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