How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all webspace hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Disadvantage No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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