How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all site hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two 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, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 perplexed? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Problem No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

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