How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, 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? Mark that one as well...