How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 becoming baffled? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Weak Point Number 3: An utter absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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