How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current web site hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely 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 simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous 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 name)
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 absolutely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An absolute lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:

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