How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense 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 pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely 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 domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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