How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all webspace hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough lack of domain management GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting providers:

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