How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all webspace hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, 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 hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 growing confused? We positively are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

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

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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