How does cpanel hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, 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 web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most webspace hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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)

Are you getting confused? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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