How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web site hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since 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 name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Predicament No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting suppliers:

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