How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Side No.3: A complete deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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