How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most webspace hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 baffled? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter absence of domain management sections

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ CP menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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