How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web page hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number 3: A total lack of domain management interfaces

Do we need to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ Control Panel menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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