How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to mention the total shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, depending on the billing tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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