How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web page hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive 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 domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 nonplussed? We certainly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:

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