How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only 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 two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most site hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 growing perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Downside No.3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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