How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web page hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Weakness Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...