How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most web site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide 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 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 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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We positively are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Predicament Number Three: An utter shortage of domain management options

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...