How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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)
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 unquestionably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ hosting CP sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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