How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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