How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 getting perplexed? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we have to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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