How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Downside Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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