How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 getting confused? We certainly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Disadvantage No.3: A total absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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