How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web space hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 growing puzzled? We clearly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: An utter lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...