How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness No.3: A sheer absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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