How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web page hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, 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 web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 confused? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting companies:

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