How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web page hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely 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 domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We surely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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