How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 created 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 placed 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. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)
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 doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the total shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:

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