How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all web space hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weak Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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