How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous 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 growing perplexed? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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