How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all webspace hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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 getting bewildered? We certainly are!

Problem Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 CP departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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