How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day site hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web page hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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 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)
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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite arrogant 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...