How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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