How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all site hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful 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 name)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

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