How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you growing baffled? We categorically are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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