How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, 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, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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