How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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