How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web space hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting disorientated? We clearly are!

Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete lack of domain management options

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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