How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web page hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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