How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: An utter lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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