How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike 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 strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web page hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Shortcoming No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management tools

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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