How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in 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 large the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase completely 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 very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous 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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete absence of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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