How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all site hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 getting baffled? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same email folder system

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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