How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Point No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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