How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number 3: A complete absence of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the entire lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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