How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's site hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web page hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We certainly are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Predicament No.3: An utter shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to point out the total absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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