How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

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 new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number 3: An utter lack of domain management tools

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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