How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most webspace hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Predicament Number 3: A complete absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Downside No.4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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