How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web space hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 growing bewildered? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Side Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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