How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

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

Weak Point Number 3: An entire lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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