How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web space hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful 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 web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous 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 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)
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 getting bewildered? We definitely are!

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

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:

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