How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase entirely 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 quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 growing disorientated? We surely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total absence of domain name management menus

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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