How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)

Are you growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: An entire lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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