How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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