How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting market preconditions. In 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 Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: A total lack of domain name administration tools

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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