How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 baffled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management menus

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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