How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)
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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We surely are!

Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting service providers:

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