How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web site hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)
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 puzzled? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

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