How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

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