How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 baffled? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration sections

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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