How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day site hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most webspace hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 baffled? We undeniably are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting vendors:

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