How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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)

Are you growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Drawback Number 3: A sheer lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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