How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name management sections

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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