How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous 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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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