How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the 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 site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web page hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all site hosting industry prerequisites. 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...

Downside Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific 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 growing baffled? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Disadvantage No.3: An entire absence of domain name management options

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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