How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided 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 huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Predicament Number Three: An absolute lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the total shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...