How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web page hosting CP areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting companies:

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