How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web space hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to point out the complete absence of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting company. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:

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