How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 categorically are!

Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting providers:

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