How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most webspace hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, 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 web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!

Problem Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Side Number 3: A complete shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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