How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web space hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 perplexed? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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