How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)

Are you becoming baffled? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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