How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management tools

Do we need to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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