How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase fully 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 domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent 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 name)
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)
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 becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. At times, based on the billing platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel sections to learn... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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