How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all web space hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Weak Side Number Three: An absolute absence of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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