How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 becoming confused? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 CP areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting service providers:

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