How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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