How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 getting baffled? We categorically are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

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

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting companies:

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