How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Problem Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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