How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all webspace hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)

Are you growing puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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