How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 getting baffled? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total absence of domain name administration sections

Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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