How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

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

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: A thorough absence of domain management menus

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:

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