How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing 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)
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 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 growing confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Drawback No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration options

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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