How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most webspace hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Downside Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: A total shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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