How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 getting disorientated? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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