How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all webspace hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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