How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 confused? We definitely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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