How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming confused? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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