How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting vendors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...