How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web page hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 becoming baffled? We positively are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 CP sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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