How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove 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 domain names are very simple to remove on the 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the total lack of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting service providers:

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