How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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 disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Downside Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the total lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the eager users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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