How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site 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 site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)
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)
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 categorically are!

Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weakness No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we need to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the avid customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...