How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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