How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

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

Weak Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We positively are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain administration tools

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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