How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present site hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web space hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Drawback Number 3: A total absence of domain name management tools

Do we need to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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