How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all webspace hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 growing disorientated? We surely are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting vendors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...