How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole site hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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