How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 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 getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...