How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all webspace hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific 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 name)
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)

Are you growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Problem No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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