How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Problem Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name management tools

Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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