How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most webspace hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the web server, because they all are situated 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 located 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. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 becoming disorientated? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration sections

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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