How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all webspace hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 bewildered? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Predicament No.3: A complete shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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