How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web page hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, 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 hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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