How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 becoming baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder system

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... rapidly

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

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

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