How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)
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 getting confused? We certainly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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