How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Problem Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...