How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web site hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Problem Number 3: A total absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:

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