How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: 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 offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all webspace hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 getting confused? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Downside No.3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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