How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most web page hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 growing disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: An utter lack of domain management options

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

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