How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most web site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We categorically are!

Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting providers:

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