How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A complete absence of domain management GUIs

Do we need to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...