How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most webspace hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove fully 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 domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting 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 is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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 growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total lack of domain management sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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