How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 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 nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Problem Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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