How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all webspace hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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