How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful 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, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 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 bewildered? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the keen users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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