How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). 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, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 getting baffled? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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