How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web page hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)

Are you growing puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming No.3: An utter shortage of domain management sections

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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