How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come 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 just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Downside Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ hosting CP sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:

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