How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Downside Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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