How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine 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 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)

Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...