How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, 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 page hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The strong and weak points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 growing baffled? We clearly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: A total absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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