How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web space hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove 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 domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Problem Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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