How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big 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 web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful 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 delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous 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 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)

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weak Point No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number 3: A total shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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