How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 getting confused? We categorically are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Weak Side Number Three: A complete absence of domain management menus

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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