How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web site hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing 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)
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 becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Predicament No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer shortage of domain administration tools

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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