How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great 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)

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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