How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the server, since they all are set up 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 growing confused? We definitely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number 3: A complete lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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