How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic 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 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 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)

Are you getting disorientated? We certainly are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: A total shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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