How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 confused? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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