How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most site hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 name)
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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Drawback No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: An utter absence of domain name management tools

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:

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