How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most site hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely 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 very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you getting puzzled? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management menus

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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