How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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 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 undoubtedly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Weak Side No.3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:

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