How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web page hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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 becoming baffled? We surely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: A total shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting companies:

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