How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all webspace hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 getting perplexed? We surely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:

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