How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most webspace hosting industry requirements. 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...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 puzzled? We surely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Drawback Number 3: A complete absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web page hosting CP departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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