How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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 server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent 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 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 bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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