How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most site hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Sign No.3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ site hosting CP sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:

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