How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact 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 decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...