How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web space hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We definitely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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