How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's site hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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