How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web page hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful 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 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)
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 unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 CP sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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