How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all webspace hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Problem No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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