How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

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

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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