How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web site hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...