How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY 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 one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web site hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ hosting CP sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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