How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web page hosting business preconditions. 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...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 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 absolutely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Problem Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management options

Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:

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