How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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)
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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

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

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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