How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all site hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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