How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web page hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous 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)
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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 getting puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A total shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...