How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web space hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific 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)
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 becoming confused? We positively are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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