How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 growing bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management tools

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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