How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all webspace hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

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

Predicament Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting vendors:

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