How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)

Are you getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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