How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase 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 quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a great downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the avid users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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