How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly 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 webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! 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 modern and possibly answered all web page hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely 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 domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Weak Side No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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