How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove completely 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 easy to remove on the hosting server, because 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weakness No.3: A complete absence of domain management menus

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 CP menus to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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