How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web page hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We certainly are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Predicament Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Drawback No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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