How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, 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 situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming No.3: A total absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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