How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web site hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Weakness No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP menus to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...