How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 disorientated? We definitely are!

Downside Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Downside Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting service providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...