How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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 hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Problem Number Two: The same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management options

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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