How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web space hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 puzzled? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: An utter lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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