How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire site hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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)
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 perplexed? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number Three: A complete shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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