How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all site hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)
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 becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: A total lack of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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