How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present site hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 simple to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 getting disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Predicament No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a great problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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