How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try 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 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)
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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

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

Disadvantage No.3: A complete shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

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

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting firms:

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