How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great 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 name)
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 puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting providers:

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