How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 getting baffled? We absolutely are!

Drawback No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the thorough absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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