How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

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

Predicament Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)

Are you growing confused? We certainly are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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