How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Formally. 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 offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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 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)
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 getting confused? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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