How does cpanel website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web page hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough shortage of domain management options

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting providers:

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