How does cpanel web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides 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 presumably met most webspace hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 disorientated? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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