How does cpanel site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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