How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete 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 easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful 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 name)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We positively are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: An entire shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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