How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all site hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 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 confused? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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