How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 perplexed? We categorically are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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