How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web site hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Predicament No.2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...