How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web space hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)

Are you getting perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number Three: A total absence of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:

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