How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most site hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). 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 quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 getting confused? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire lack of domain administration menus

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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