How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 created 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful 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 name)
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 getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:

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