How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 disorientated? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting distributors:

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