How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web page hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Aspect No.3: A complete absence of domain administration options

Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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