How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel choice. 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 2, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. 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 site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Problem Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: An absolute absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP departments to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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