How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor 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 positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: A complete lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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