How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 disorientated? We positively are!

Problem Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

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

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ CP menus to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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