How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web site hosting industry requirements. 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 domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully 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 domains are very easy to remove on the web 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A sheer absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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