How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web page hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, 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 server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine 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 name)
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)
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 absolutely are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Inconvenience No.3: A total absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...