How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely 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 domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 surely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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