How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most webspace hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 definitely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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