How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all webspace hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting providers:

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