How does cpanel hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, based on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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