How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 getting confused? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Predicament No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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