How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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