How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Problem Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting suppliers:

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