How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most web site hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely 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 domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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