How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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 getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

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