How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 perplexed? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage No.3: An absolute lack of domain management menus

Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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